Will whoever controls gene editing control historical memory?
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Harvard's recent CRISPR experiment isn't just a new frontier for science — it's also…
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August 2017
Biofuel breakthroughs bring ‘negative emissions’ a step closer
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Algae could be the key to a new type of biofuel. hbarrows/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND…
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new light shed on legendary Cold War double defector
496 Views August 29, 2017 Keith R Allen
Imagine if the director of the American FBI or Britain’s MI5 were to defect…
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Do coal and nuclear need a helping hand? 5 essential reads
160 Views August 25, 2017 Martin La Monica, Deputy Editor, The Conversation (US edition)
Coal power has long been a mainstay of the electricity system but has lost…
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Do coal and nuclear need a helping hand? 5 essential reads
379 Views August 25, 2017 Martin LaMonica
Coal power has long been a mainstay of the electricity system but has lost…
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How Black Blocs have changed protest movements around the world
522 Views August 25, 2017 Francis Dupuis-Déri
The images were striking: massive blockades, protesters donning masks and black hoods suddenly racing…
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Europe is going grey: can EU countries work together to care for their elderly?
133 Views August 22, 2017 Milena Pavlova, Associate Professor of Health Economics, Maastricht University
How can Europe best take care of its elderly? BM10777/Pixaby European societies are ageing.…
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Monarch caterpillars feeding on milkweed leaves and dropping their faces (taken in the laboratory…